The problem is I think, you changed to pam.d/login file etc.. to require ldap password auth. Change to sufficient or just keep your ldap server running. -Brad Nils O. Selåsdal wrote: >On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 15:47, Michael Kress wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I tried to implement authentification to ldap via pam_ldap and I'm encountering >>problems - I wonder if you could be a help to my problem: >> >>The problem in brief: After a conversion towards pam_ldap I can't login >>anymore into my machine when the ldap server isn't started. >>Imagine the scenario: The machine boots (normally it doesn't) ;-) and it >>can't mount /var, so the slapd can't start up. >> >This issue is frequently discussed at the pam-ldap mailing list, www.padl.com, you might find some points there. >